Natural Family BLOG, an online journal written by Jenny Hatch
Lots of interesting stuff going on.
Dana Ullman has posted the second follow up article at Huffington Post titled
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“Modern medicine uses the double-blind and placebo-controlled trial as the gold standard by which the effectiveness of a treatment is determined. On the surface, this scientific method is very reasonable. However, serious problems in these studies are widely acknowledged by academics but remain unknown to the general public. Fundamental questions about the meaning of the word “efficacy” are rarely raised.
For instance, just because a drug treatment seems to eliminate a specific symptom does not necessarily mean that it is “effective.” In fact, getting rid of a specific symptom can be the bad news. Aspirin may lower your fever, but physiologists recognize that fever is an important defense of the body in its efforts to fight infection. Sleep-inducing drugs may lead you to fall asleep, but they do not lead to refreshed sleep, and these drugs ultimately tend to aggravate the cycle of insomnia and fatigue, while conveniently (for the drug companies) tend to create addiction. Long-term safety and efficacy of many modern drugs for common ailments remains unknown, despite the high hopes and sincere expectations from the medical community and the rest of us for greater certainty.”
Lawsuit is coming, and the Hide the Decline guys say BRING IT ON~!
You Tube has pulled all of the Hide the Decline Vids from the site.
But Andrew Bribart has stepped up and posted the vid on his site.
*The Global Elites are shaking in their boots…ha ha ha
Was thrilled that the Hide the Decline guys remade their video after being threatened with a lawsuit by Climate Gates Michael Mann and forced to pull the old video off you Tube. Here is the remake, they are hoping to inspire a law suit with it by using Manns image.
One of the things that conservatives especially need to understand is that the same “scientists” who gave us bogus climate data are the same global elites tied to Big Pharma. They have wrapped the “irrefutable scientific peer reviewed evidence” around all of their research in an attempt to spew their chemicals all over the minds and bodies of the families of the world and it is the worst peer reviewed junk science that has ever been produced.
This recent article by Dana Ullman at Huff Po questions the science behind most of modern medicine.
“Doctors today commonly assert that they practice “scientific medicine,” and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are “scientifically proven.” However, this ideal is a dream, not reality, and a clever and profitable marketing ruse, not fact…”
…”Quackery” is commonly defined as the use of unproven treatments by individuals or companies who claim fantastic results and who charge large sums of money. Although modern physicians may point their collective finger at various “alternative” or “natural” treatment modalities as examples of quackery, it is conventional medical treatments today that are out-of-this-world expensive, and despite real questionable efficacy of their treatments, doctors give patients the guise of “science….”
…Big Pharma, Big Bucks, and the Guise of Science
Adherents of conventional medicine have consistently asserted that its methods are scientifically verified, and they have ridiculed other methods that are suggested to have therapeutic or curative effects. In fact, conventional physicians have consistently worked to disallow competitors, even viciously attacking those in their own profession who have questioned conventional treatments or provided alternative modalities. More recently, medical organizations simply work with insurance companies to help them determine what should and shouldn’t get reimbursed, a clever way to kill competition bloodlessly.And yet, strangely enough, whatever has been in vogue in conventional medicine in one decade has been declared ineffective, dangerous and sometimes barbaric in the ensuing decades. Surprisingly, despite this pattern in history, proponents and defenders of “scientific medicine” tend to have little or no humility, continually asserting that today’s cure is truly effective … and in any case, strongly asserting that any “alternatives” to this ever-changing treatment are quackery, sheer quackery, whether they know anything about these alternative treatment modalities or not….”
Read the whole piece it is extremely enlightening.
Three areas of Modern Medicine are the most problematic for parents and children. They are Birth, Psychiatry, and Vaccines. These three modalities of healing contain some of the worst junk science in all of medicine. And ironically, they are the three main forms of Allopathy that are most revered and used by Families around the world.
The number one thing that hospitals do in this country is deliver babies. And with the statistics for surgical birth looking extremely grim, I believe we are on a trajectory with Birth where we could easily lose natural and normal birth in another generation or two.
The New York Times ran an article yesterday extolling the efforts of one New York hospital to implement policies that have lowered the C-section rate. (I often believe these types of articles are the elites tossing a bone to the activists working to normalize birth – they know how horrifying their statistics are and if they can claim a 23% c-section rate is a “good thing” it provides perfect cover, what some of us call, “Controlled opposition” to the status quo. It also manipulates the readers into thinking that something positive is going on when we have a C-section rate of 23%)
Staten Island University Hospital has kept its rate down to a 23% level and while I applaud the efforts of a pioneer like Mitchell A Maiman, as A birth activist I am appalled at any C-section rate over five percent.
Ideally the rate should be 3% and our society should be actively educating mothers on proper nutrition, natural birth, and how to nourish/birth a healthy baby without drugs, to reduce it even more. (Please note, with the current level of ignorance on the part of Young Mothers and the absolute addiction of our people to drugs, junk food, and mothers overextending themselves with excessive exercise and working/volunteering outside the home, I believe this will take several generations to accomplish.)
To my way of thinking the only rational reason for a woman to have a surgery to give birth would be if she was in an accident and the surgery would save her and the babe. Lifestyle choice on the part of the doctor or the mother would have NOTHING to do with it.
(*Please note the statistics used in this video are from 2007, the 2008 C-Section rates are even worse…)
“Mother-demanded C-sections are unusual enough that the policy is probably more useful to Dr. Maiman for the message it sends to doctors and patients, a clear sign that he values a noninterventionist policy as long as it is safe. It has become common for hospitals to prohibit what are known as VBACs (for Vaginal Birth After Caesarean, pronounced VEE-back) for reasons having to do with anesthesia availability and, more tacitly, a fear of lawsuits. Dr. Maiman actively encourages VBACs. Residents are trained not only to avoid unnecessary C-sections, but to let higher-ups know if they witness another doctor about to perform one.
Obstetricians with high Caesarean rates, Dr. Maiman said, invite scrutiny; doctors either come to see things his way or end up leaving the hospital.
“If a woman has a third or a fourth Caesarean, the maternal morbidity and mortality is astronomically higher,” Dr. Maiman said. “That’s when you see women dying in childbirth from obstetrical hemorrhage.”
Whether or not you like his policy — maybe you believe a mother’s choice should extend to controlling the hour of her delivery and how much it will hurt — you have to give Dr. Maiman credit for not just creating protocols to protect women’s health, but enforcing them. There is not a lot of incentive for hospitals to let conviction trump convenience, especially when convenience comes with the added bonus of lower legal risk.”
The Medical Profession has a long history of controlling its own opposition, especially when it comes to Psychiatry and Vaccinations.
Leonard Horowitz has provided some of the best exposure on how the profession manipulates activists and controls the message they share. His article on the National Vaccine Information Centers ties to the industry is one of the best on the web.
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“By 1982, following 60-Minutes’s coverage of the deadly Swine Flu vaccine fiasco, and Marge Grant’s DPT appearance on national television, the “war” was turning against the drug industry. So Fisher and Schwartz were called upon to lobby with other pro-vaccinationists co-constructing the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Schwartz, the NVIC’s first President, had worked for “Mr. Health”—Florida Rep. Paul Rogers who led congress to advance the 1976 swine flu vaccination program. Rogers then crafted the legislation eliminating vaccine victim compensation. He was subsequently rewarded by the industry with a position on the board of directors of Merck, Sharp & Dohme, the world’s leading vaccine maker.”
Psychiatry presents the biggest boondoggle of them all – with record profits being noted all over the world. With the passage of The Mothers Act, which was embedded in the Obamacare Bill, it is now officially open season on the Mothers of America. The overwhelming junk science tied to the psychiatric drugging of our children and the mothers who care for them is so over the top fraudulent it is amazing that it just keeps chugging along…
As Amy Philo wrote in her article just after the bill was passed:
“What I soon found out is that Goliath was very frightened of our coalition. So they sent in their own wolf pack in the form of a few disgruntled mothers who presumed that they would successfully intimidate us into giving up. But we never did. Despite hurtful and hateful comments, personal attacks and lies, we continued on, growing our coalition to 54 national groups, over 13,250 public signatures and over 3,000 Facebook members. It’s difficult to count all of our supporters since word spreads fast online and people sometimes don’t even know where to find links to sign the petition even though they have written or called Congress.
I can’t even calculate the amount of money my husband spent on press releases, flights to DC, or the amount I have spent on incidentals just working to stop The MOTHERS Act. Countless radio shows and magazine, newspaper and TV interviews later, here we are in 2010 with The MOTHERS Act slipped into the Health Care Bill and passed with carte blanche approval from Democrats in the House after a tough fight in the Senate.
I find it ironic and funny to read on Katherine Stone’s and Susan Stone’s blogs a few posts congratulating each other for a job well done. All told several people are listed as getting all the credit for passing a bill that died every year in Congress for six years before passing the house in 2007 and being killed by our coalition in 2008. As you know, when the House of Reps passes something, sometimes all that they do is announce the name of the bill and its stated purpose and vote. Nobody wants to vote against something titled “The MOTHERS Act” though in reality it should be called “The Pharmaceutical Companies’ Dream For America Act” or maybe “The Axe The Mothers and Babies Act.”
I would like to use this blog post to challenge anyone reading it to learn the facts about the drug companies. Learn the facts about birth, vaccines, and psychiatry. And then make those choices that will give ultimate health and wellness to your family.
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“Statistics the Semantics of Research” according to Gwen Olsen author of the book, Confessions of an ex drug pusher.
“Two days ago, The MOTHERS Act and several other dangerous psych programs passed the house after being stuck in the 2400 page Senate Health Care Bill. Today, President Obama, a former co-sponsor of The MOTHERS Act in the Senate, signed the bill into law.
Two years and two months ago Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Camille Milke and I, as heads of CHAADA, UNITE, COPES and ICFDA collaborated on a press release to be sent to the public, media and Congress regarding our opposition to The MOTHERS Act. We created a petition and within days we had hundreds of signatures from around the country. I spent the next two months calling people all day and sending emails, writing press releases and trying to update my website with the numerous radio shows where we would spread the word about the fight to save America’s mothers from an invasive government screening program.
Here is a reminder about what we were fighting and what we eventually killed in the Senate’s “Coburn” Omnibus, only to see it later re-introduced in the 111th Congress without the exact same screening provisions:
Information on Previous Versions of The MOTHERS Act: A previous version of this bill was steamrolling through Congress [this is the one for which the preamble stated that mothers “shall be screened” – which could be interpreted as mandatory screening for all moms], and did not pass due to valid problems in the bill including the fact that it called on using a method of “screening” pregnant women and new mothers called EPDS, a screening method documented to triple the number of women diagnosed with Post partum depression, according to a study published in Obstecrics & Gynecology. The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health stated that EPDS screening was unethical and should not be used. None of the proponents of the bill (many with pharmaceutical backing and funding) had objections whatsoever to endorsing such an unethical screening tool, and this bill would have passed with no objections from them, if not for the dedication of those groups that have no vested interests (ties to Pharma) opposing this bill that would certainly have lead to an increase of women being put on dangerous antidepressant and other psychiatric drugs to “treat” them. At best, those who supported this bill failed completely in their lack of due diligence on what they were promoting for new mothers, and for the psycho/pharma industry funded groups that supported it, their interests were clear.
What I soon found out is that Goliath was very frightened of our coalition. So they sent in their own wolf pack in the form of a few disgruntled mothers who presumed that they would successfully intimidate us into giving up. But we never did. Despite hurtful and hateful comments, personal attacks and lies, we continued on, growing our coalition to 54 national groups, over 13,250 public signatures and over 3,000 Facebook members. It’s difficult to count all of our supporters since word spreads fast online and people sometimes don’t even know where to find links to sign the petition even though they have written or called Congress.
I can’t even calculate the amount of money my husband spent on press releases, flights to DC, or the amount I have spent on incidentals just working to stop The MOTHERS Act. Countless radio shows and magazine, newspaper and TV interviews later, here we are in 2010 with The MOTHERS Act slipped into the Health Care Bill and passed with carte blanche approval from Democrats in the House after a tough fight in the Senate.
I find it ironic and funny to read on Katherine Stone’s and Susan Stone’s blogs a few posts congratulating each other for a job well done. All told several people are listed as getting all the credit for passing a bill that died every year in Congress for six years before passing the house in 2007 and being killed by our coalition in 2008. As you know, when the House of Reps passes something, sometimes all that they do is announce the name of the bill and its stated purpose and vote. Nobody wants to vote against something titled “The MOTHERS Act” though in reality it should be called “The Pharmaceutical Companies’ Dream For America Act” or maybe “The Axe The Mothers and Babies Act.”
When I started out this fight I had faith in the American system of government and thought that Democrats would never support this bill if they knew what it was all about. But it turned out that I started to realize I could not stick with one political side and trust that they could do the right thing if they knew about it, because it all comes down to pharmaceutical money and campaign contributions.
I remember spending days doing research on the front groups supporting the bill and the reps who voted for it and the reps and senators who co-sponsored it and coming to the conclusion that I was digging myself access to an endless rabbit hole. I gave up and published a press release that listed miniscule preliminary numbers of dollar amounts of all the people from Postpartum Support International I could find who had been awarded money by pHARMa or who worked on their speaker’s bureuas for pharmaceutical companies. Then I looked in the Eli Lilly tooth fairy documents for the front groups supporting the act and how much they had taken from pharma.
It would take all day to come up with a list of everyone I’ve written about over the past two years who supported this who took money from pHARMa. It took up so much time and effort on my part and despite my finds and leads, it seemed like it was a task too big for just me.
Then there was Evelyn Pringle, coming to save the day. That woman could take down the Trojan Horse if she wanted to, single-handedly. Probably a dozen articles later, everyone from coast to coast involved in the reproductive psychiatry scam trying to push this bill had been exposed.
But they just move on continuing to maim and kill babies as though nothing ever happened and many are probably still raking in NIH funding for doing so.
While sitting in a meeting in the US Senate office buildings last year I was fortunate to get to hear read to me a letter from the APA which they had sent to Congress to dispute our issues with The MOTHERS Act. That would be the American Psychiatric Association.
That’s right – The American Psychiatric Association takes the initiative to defend the program. Not PSI or Menendez or the DBSA or whoever but the APA. The group that was so extensively exposed recently that they had to cut back on the amount of pHARMa funding that they would accept to attempt to regain credibility.
But I just wanted to mention to those of you who are out there frustrated by this thing, that we were up against amazing odds. Katherine Stone and Susan Stone forgot to mention a few of the people who helped them out (just a few). So let’s just give a run down of many more of those who pushed for the bill and could have contributed to getting The MOTHERS Act put into the Health Care bill because it obviously was going nowhere on its own.
(Here is a link to the original article exposing the fact that between $13,095,010 – $16,487,497 in pHARMa dollars were paid to MOTHERS Act pushers in recent yearshttp://momsandmeds.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/pharmapaysmasupporters/and all quotes below were taken from that article. The research was based on the series of MOTHERS Act articles written by Evelyn Pringle.)
Pfizer (paid Katherine Stone at least $5,000 via a $20,000 gift to MHA, another front group, for reproductive psychiatry lectures to moms, and Pfizer also paid off many of the other front groups mentioned below)
The most troubling donation to this Mothers Act supporter is a $20,000 Pfizer grant to a Georgia group to fund: Project Healthy Moms: Education for Prevention/Treatment for Perinatal Depression Disorders, which apparently ended up, at least in part, in the pocketbook of Katherine Stone.
The Georgia group’s June 8, 2008 e-news said the grant was for: “Project Healthy Moms: What You Need To Know About Perinatal Mood Disorders.”
The $20,000 funded 1-hour speaking events with Katherine, “aimed at educating practitioners and the general public throughout Georgia about prevention of and treatment for such illnesses as ante partum depression, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety/OCD and postpartum psychosis,” the newsletter said.
Katherine was described as a “former postpartum OCD sufferer and author of Postpartum Progress, the most widely-read blog in the United States on postpartum mood disorders.”
E-news said attendees would learn: “One size does NOT fit all: Why postpartum depression is just part of a spectrum of mood disorders women may experience & what to look for.”
The newsletter only listed 5 scheduled events but told readers to contact Katherine directly by email or phone to schedule more. E-news did acknowledge that: “This special hour of learning is made possible by a grant from Pfizer,” but listed no amount.
Eli Lilly (paid leaders within PSI, Mary Jo Codey, Margaret Spinelli & Diana Barnes awards to be given to their favorite nonprofit.)
Forest
AstraZeneca
APA – over $62 million from pHARMa in 2006. In addition:
Lilly gave the American Psychiatric Association grants worth more than $600,000 in both the first and second quarters of 2008. In 2007, the group received over $400,000 from Lilly. The drug maker gave roughly $450,000 more to the American Psychiatric Foundation for the APA fellowship program. Pfizer donated more than $700,000 to the “non-profit” APA in 2008.
Screening for Mental Health
The front groups team up with a “non-profit” called “Screening for Mental Health,” to carry out mental illness screening days all over the country every year. Their websites also provide live links to internet screening programs set up by this firm.
Up to 2008, the SMH had received close to $5 million from drug companies. Lilly gave the firm $124,000 in 2007 and $100,000 in 2008.
Sherri Lusskin (involved with the leadership in PSI – reproductive psychiatrist on the speaker’s bureau for four pHARMaceutical companies)
NAMI – One of the biggest pHARMa front groups of all time. At least 56% of funding comes from pHARMa, probably more.
NAMI’s annual reports list about every drug company on the planet as a corporate partner without specifying how much each donated. But the grant reports of Lilly and Pfizer for 2007 and 2008 show NAMI groups received millions of dollars from those two drug makers alone.
In the fourth quarter of 2008, Pfizer gave NAMI a grant of $132,000 to fund a campaign that best describes the drug maker’s goal called the “Campaign for the Mind of America.” In the third quarter, Pfizer doled out another $225,000 to fund the same campaign.
Lilly is also funding the Campaign for the Mind, with grants of $450,000 in both 2007 and 2008. Lilly also provides extra funding to NAMI groups all over the country for the “Walk for the Mind of America.” In 2007, walking money totaled $17,000 in the first quarter, $11,500 in the second, and $13,000 for the third and fourth combined. In 2008, Lilly’s “Walk for the Mind” quarterly totals were $11,500, $24,000, $12,500 and $2,000.
In 2007, NAMI presented a $50,000 “Mind of America Scientific Research Award” to Dr A John Rush. He also landed on the Grassley hit list last fall for not disclosing drug company money to the University of Texas.
On April 6, 2009, Senator Grassley sent a letter to NAMI asking for the disclosure of all funding from drug makers and industry created foundations over the past few years.
DBSA – This group sponsored the CapWiz software link for sending private letters to Congress to support The MOTHERS Act, which Susan Stone directed people to sign and called a “petition.”
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance received $37,510 from Lilly in 2007 and $20,000 in 2008. This group provides live links to form letters that can be filled in and sent to Congress members asking them to vote for the Mother’s Act. The two Stone gals provide links to the Mothers Act alerts put out by the Alliance on their websites.
The group’s 2007 Annual Report shows this non-profit received between $150,000 and $499,000 from AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Wyeth. Abbott, Cyberonics, Lilly, Forest, Glaxo, Organon, and Otsuka American Pharmaceuticals gave between $10,000 and $149,999.
The report also notes that a “First-ever DBSA Hope Award” for lifetime achievement was presented to Frederick Goodwin. Back in August 2002, the speakers at the annual conference of the Alliance included three stars from the Grassley hit list, Goodwin, Nemeroff and Joseph Beiderman.
The ACOG -In 2008, Lilly gave the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists $16,000, and a $2,000 donation was made in the third quarter of 2007.
The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare – described as “a non-profit association representing 1,300 mental health and addictions treatment and rehabilitation organizations,” on its website. This gang received $200,000 from Lilly in the first quarter of 2008, and another $215,000 in the fourth quarter.
Charles Nemeroff, SPAN USA and AFSP
Mother’s Act supporter, Suicide Prevention Action Network USA, has merged with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, according to a November 6, 2008 press release announcement.
A year earlier, Emory University reported that Charles Nemeroff had been elected president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and would begin serving his three-year tenure in January 2008.
Emory’s press release noted that Nemeroff had served on the AFSP’s national board of directors since 1999 and had “been a member of the Foundation’s Scientific Council for more than 10 years and was named chair of the Council in 2007.”
In about the same time frame between 2000 and 2007, Senator Charles Grassley’s Senate Finance Committee investigation found that Nemeroff had earned more than $2.8 million from drug companies, but failed to disclose at least $1.2 million to Emory.
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Lilly’s 2008 grant report shows the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA received one $10,000 grant and another $70,000 grant. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention also received three grants worth $78,000.
Lilly’s 2007 report shows the Action Network received $10,000 in one quarter and $70,000 in another. The Foundation got $25,000 in 2007. The 2004 spring issue of USA’s Network News reports that: “Network News is funded by a grant from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation.”
The Summer 2005 Network News noted that “Donations Sustain SPAN USA.”
The donor list shows Pfizer gave over $10,000. The group received more than $1,000 from Bristol-Meyers, Janssen, and Novartis. Forest Pharmaceuticals gave over $500.
The 2006 Spring Network News announced the “Friend for Life” sponsors. Forest and the industry’s trade group, PhRMA donated over $15,000. Pfizer gave between $10,000 and $14,999. Solvay was listed as giving between $6,000 and $9,999 and companies that gave between $2,000 and $5,999 were AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers. J&J, Lilly and Novartis each donated between $500 and $1,999.
Mental Health America
Mental Health America groups also received millions of dollars from Pfizer and Lilly alone in 2007 and 2008. This group runs a “Campaign for America’s Mental Health” and received grants of $200,000 and $300,000 in 2008 from Pfizer to fund it. Lilly gave $300,000 to fund this Campaign in 2007.
MHA’s 2006 annual report shows the group received over $1 million each from Lilly, Bristol-Myers, and Wyeth. Janssen and Pfizer gave between $500,000 and $1,000,000, and AstraZeneca and Forest donated between $100,000 and $499,000. Glaxo gave between $50,000 and $100,000 in 2006.
The Children’s Defense Fund received a grant for $125,000 in 2003 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The March of Dimes got $6,500 from Pfizer in 2008, and the National Association of Social Workers also received $7,500 from Pfizer.
And I can recall reading / writing about even the ACNM, Massachusetts General Hospital and others getting funding from pHARMa and the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition (Susan Stone is a board member) being sponsored by several pHARMaceutical companies. The list just goes on and on, so I’ll just add this:
Et cetera
Lest we forget the saddest groups to support the bill, NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher, whose obvious conflicts of interest here would be the fact that more moms are going to be choosing to terminate pregnancies when they become pregnant on antidepressants and other drugs due to the risk to the baby of death via miscarriage, birth defects, SIDS, stillbirth et cetera. And even if moms don’t choose abortion, more babies will still die with the implementation of perinatal disease mongering. I would expect groups like those to be a little more careful about the messages that they send because all it looks like here is that they are asking us to show them the money.
So congratulations Goliath, together you did it. And you even got your pregnancy and depression screening funding back in there thanks to Barbara Mikulski’s vague screening amendment. All those laundered dollars are a small price for you to pay considering the harm you do and will continue to do via the government-sanctioned marketing of reproductive psychiatry.
Time to pray for all OBGYNS, midwives and doulas that they will wake up and start protecting vulnerable moms from the wolves trying to prey on their lives and their babies’ lives. But until that happens we plan to reach out and do our part to make sure as many moms as possible are given the opportunity for informed consent so that they can save their children and themselves.”
Limiter les naissances, un remède au péril climatique ?
LE MONDE | 18.11.09 | 13h03
l faut d’urgence aider les femmes à faire moins d’enfants pour lutter contre le péril climatique : c’est le message martelé par le rapport 2009 du Fonds des Nations unies pour la population (Unfpa), publié mercredi 18 novembre, selon lequel la natalité galopante des pays en développement est l’un des principaux moteurs du réchauffement et l’un de ses premiers risques.
A trois semaines du sommet de Copenhague et alors que la planification familiale marque le pas dans les régions les plus pauvres, l’Unfpa tente ainsi d’imposer dans les débats une question démographique aussi absente des rapports du Groupe intergouvernemental d’experts sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) que des négociations internationales.
Le ton de l’appel surprend : même si la Terre gagne chaque semaine 1,5 million d’habitants, les démographes conviennent aujourd’hui, après l’alarmisme des années 1960, que la population mondiale va se stabiliser en douceur à plus ou moins 9 milliards en 2050 – contre 6,8 milliards aujourd’hui – et que la bombe démographique a déjà fait pschitt.
“Il ne s’agit pas de réglementer le nombre de naissances, mais d’offrir un libre choix”, rappelle le Canadien Yves Bergevin, coordonnateur pour la santé maternelle à l’Unfpa. “Dans tous les pays où l’on développe l’égalité des sexes, l’éducation des filles et le planning familial, la natalité baisse durablement de six ou sept enfants par femme à seulement deux ou trois, sans coercition et sans exception.”
Certes, un nouveau-né nigérian promet de créer au cours de sa vie une empreinte écologique bien moindre qu’un petit Américain. Mais les pays en développement connaissent une croissance rapide et très émettrice en carbone, argumente le Fonds des Nations unies pour la population (Fnuap).
“UN PROCESSUS LENT“
Ainsi, dans un monde aux ressources limitées, freiner la croissance de leur population permettrait aux pays pauvres, non seulement de sortir de la misère, mais aussi de réduire le volume de leurs émissions de CO2 et de mieux s’adapter aux effets du réchauffement – manque d’eau, insécurité alimentaire –, estime l’agence de l’ONU, selon laquelle “des modes viables de consommation et de production ne peuvent être atteints et maintenus que si la population mondiale ne dépasse pas un chiffre écologiquement viable”.
Parlons chiffres, donc. L’ONU prévoit en 2050 une population mondiale de 9,15 milliards d’humains. Un scénario médian, encadré par une hypothèse basse à 7,9 milliards et une version haute à 10,4 milliards.
Selon les récents calculs d’un climatologue américain du National Center for Atmospheric Research, Brian O’Neill, l’humanité émettrait, dans l’hypothèse basse, deux milliards de tonnes de CO2 en moins que dans le scénario médian. L’économie équivaudrait au remplacement de centrales à charbon par 2 millions de turbines éoliennes d’une puissance d’un mégawatt !
Une autre étude tout aussi récente citée par le Fnuap conclut qu’un dollar investi dans la planification familiale et l’éducation des filles réduit les émissions de gaz à effet de serre au moins autant qu’un dollar dépensé dans l’énergie éolienne.
Des estimations de haute voltige, tant tout cela dépend de l’évolution des modes de consommation et de production. Mais présentée ainsi, l’arme démographique apparaît fort tentante… et peut-être un peu trop simple.
“Indéniablement, la croissance démographique amplifie tous les problèmes, c’est l’élément le plus simple et le plus direct. Mais c’est une illusion de croire que l’on peut agir sur cette variable de manière simple et directe. C’est un processus lent, qui passe par l’éducation et se heurte à des obstacles politiques et culturels, plus encore que religieux. Il ne suffit pas de mettre des cartons de contraceptifs à disposition des gens”, tempère le démographe Henri Leridon, premier titulaire de la chaire de développement durable au Collège de France.
Reste que ce “processus lent” stagne dans les pays les moins avancés, alors même que le scénario moyen de l’ONU suppose une baisse considérable du taux de natalité dans les pays en développement, nécessitant des progrès importants dans l’accès au planning familial. Au point que pour certains scientifiques, sans reprise de l’effort en faveur de l’émancipation des femmes et de la contraception, on pourrait en réalité atteindre 11 milliards d’habitants en 2050.
“Un milliard d’humains n’ont pas accès à un minimum d’éducation sexuelle et de services de santé reproductive. Nos enquêtes montrent que 200 millions de femmes dans les pays en développement ont des besoins non satisfaits en moyens de contraception”, explique M. Bergevin.
Signe de ce retard, la prévalence de la contraception moderne n’est que de 21 % dans les pays les moins avancés, où le taux de fécondité reste de 4,9, contre une moyenne mondiale de 2,54. “Une soixantaine de pays affichent toujours une natalité extrêmement forte”, indique M. Bergevin.
Le Niger, pays semi-aride fortement soumis au risque climatique, fait partie de ces pays où la transition démographique n’est encore qu’une perspective lointaine : sa population devrait grimper de 15,3 millions à 58,2 millions en 2050, les femmes y ont sept enfants en moyenne et la prévalence de la contraception moderne ne dépasse pas 5 %.
AVEU DE SEMI-ÉCHEC
Quinze ans après la Conférence internationale sur la population et le développement de 1994 au Caire, où l’éducation, la santé reproductive et la planification familiale ont été reconnues par la communauté internationale comme la voie à suivre pour stabiliser la population, l’appel du Fnuap sonne comme un aveu de semi-échec.
Le financement de la planification familiale par les pays donateurs du Fnuap s’est effondré, passant de 723 millions de dollars en 1995 à 338 millions de dollars en 2007, en raison notamment du désengagement des Etats-Unis, inquiets de voir leur argent financer des programmes proavortement.
Un recul aggravé par les ravages des programmes d’ajustement structurel de la Banque mondiale et du Fonds monétaire international sur les systèmes de santé et d’éducation de certains pays.
Au risque de paraître vouloir “récupérer l’enjeu du climat pour alimenter son fonds de commerce”, selon M. Leridon, le Fnuap souhaite obtenir à Copenhague que l’émancipation des femmes et la planification familiale soient reconnues parmi les mécanismes d’adaptation au changement climatique susceptibles de recevoir des financements internationaux.
“Il n’y a pas d’investissement dans le développement qui coûte si peu et qui apporte des bénéfices si immenses et de si vaste portée”, plaide Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, la directrice exécutive du Fnuap.
WARNING: SWINE FLU VACCINE CONTAINS POISONOUS SQUALENE OIL
“Instead of mass murdering quickly and compassionately, putting squalene in today’s swine flu vaccines assures populations will suffer chronically and painfully for life, assuming people survive the viral recombinants in the vaccine.”
Leonard G. Horowitz, DMD, MA, MPH. DNM, DMM
Award winning author and public health expert
Baxter Vaccine Patent Application
Free Republic Thread on this Post
Edda West’s excellent review of Squalene adjuvants posted on VacLib.org.
A Glimpse into the Scary World of Vaccine Adjuvants
The article below was originally published in the Winter, 2005 edition of the “VRAN Newsletter” (contact information appears at the end of this excellent analysis of vaccine adjuvants). The editors of PandemicFluOnline have placed a high priority on bringing ourselves and our readers up to speed with “the scary world of vaccine adjuvants” because we know that the swine flu vaccine currently in production will contain them. Both government and industry have yet to disclose the ingredients of the new (experimental) vaccine and even indicated that the pandemic swine flu shot will not be “adjuvanted,” according to Dr. Anthony Fauci in an MSNBC interview July 30, 2009. However, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has spent $700 million in contracts to Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to supply “bulk oil-in-water adjuvant” for the 600 million doses of the swine flu vaccine in production and earmarked for every man, woman and child in America. Contracts are awarded to companies with a track record of producing a licensed product already on the market and Novartis produces a squalene-based adjuvant (MF59) and GSK produces squalene-based adjuvants ASO3 and ASO4. As you are about to see, all adjuvants come with the risk of causing both acute and chronic adverse effects. ~PandemicFluOnline
By Edda West
Adjuvants are formulated compounds, which when combined with vaccine antigens intensify the body’s immune response. They are used to elicit an early, high and long-lasting immune response. “The chemical nature of adjuvants, their mode of action and their reactions (side effect) are highly variable in terms of how they affect the immune system and how serious their adverse effects are due to the resultant hyperactivation of the immune system. While adjuvants enable the use of less *antigen to achieve the desired immune response and reduce vaccine production costs, with few exceptions, adjuvants are foreign to the body and cause adverse reactions”, writes Australian scientist Viera Scheibner Ph.D, (1)
The most common adjuvant for human use is an aluminum salt called alum derived from aluminum hydroxide, or aluminum phosphate. A quick read of the scientific literature reveals that the neurotoxic effects of aluminum were recognized 100 years ago. Aluminum is a neurotoxicant and has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders. Prior to 1980, kidney patients undergoing long term dialysis treatments often suffered dialysis encephalopathy syndrome, the result of acute intoxication by the use of an aluminium-containing dialysate. This is now avoided using modern techniques of water purification. In preterm infants, prolonged intravenous feeding with solutions containing aluminum is associated with impaired neurologic development. Scientists speculate that aluminum neurotoxicity may be related to cell damage via free radical production, impairment of glucose metabolism, and effects on nerve signal transduction. (2) Vaccines which contain both aluminum adjuvants and mercury based preservative, greatly magnify the neurotoxic effects. (3)
Macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) is a muscle disease first identified in 1993, and has been linked to vaccines containing aluminum adjuvants. Muscle pain is the most frequent symptom which can be localized to the limbs or be more diffuse. Other symptoms include joint pain, muscle weakness, fatigue, fever, and muscle tenderness. The disorder is associated with an altered immune system in some, but not all patients. A study published in the journal Brain (2001) revealed that 50 out of 50 patients had received vaccines against hepatitis B virus (86%), hepatitis A virus (19%) or tetanus toxoid (58%), 3-96 months (median 36 months) before biopsy. “We conclude that the MMF lesion is secondary to intramuscular injection of aluminium hydroxide-containing vaccines, shows both long-term persistence of aluminium hydroxide and an ongoing local immune reaction, and is detected in patients with systemic symptoms which appeared subsequently to vaccination”, write the authors of the study. (4)
But aluminum’s neurotoxicity is of less concern to the vaccine industry than the fact that it elicits a lesser antibody response to the so called purer recombinant or synthetic antigens used in modern day vaccines than in older style live or killed whole organism vaccines. “This has created a major need for improved and more powerful adjuvants for use in these vaccines.” (5)
For decades, vaccine developers have been tinkering with various substances to trick the body into heightened immune responses. The most effective adjuvants are formulated with oils but have long been considered too reactive for use in humans. Immunologists have known for decades that a microscopic dose of even a few molecules of adjuvant injected into the body can cause disturbances in the immune system and have known since the1930’s that oil based adjuvants are particularly dangerous, which is why their use has been restricted to experiments with animals.
The classic oil based adjuvant called Freund’s Complete Adjuvant can cause permanent organ damage and irreversible disease – specifically autoimmune diseases. When scientists want to induce autoimmune disease in a lab animal, they inject it with Freund’s Complete Adjuvant, which causes great suffering and is considered by some too inhumane to even inject into animals.
Dr. Jules Freund creator of this oil based adjuvant warned in 1956 that animals injected with his formulation developed terrible, incurable conditions: allergic aspermatogenesis (stoppage of sperm production), experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (the animal version of MS), allergic neuritis (inflammation of the nerves that can lead to paralysis) and other severe autoimmune disorders. (6)
Adjuvants can break “tolerance”, meaning they can disable the immune system to the degree that it loses its ability to distinguish what is “self” from what is foreign. Normally, the immune system ignores the constituents of one’s own body. Immunologists call this “tolerance”. But if something happens to break “tolerance”, then the immune system turns relentlessly self-destructive, attacking the body it is supposed to defend. (6)
Scientists theorize that oil based adjuvants have the ability to “hyperactivate” the immune system, and in doing so, create chaos by inducing such an extremely powerful response that the immune system literally goes haywire and starts attacking elements it would normally ignore. (6)
Another theory has to do with “specificity”. One of the great distinguishing characteristics of the immune system is something akin to a highly sensitive innate intelligence that has evolved over eons to be able to respond very precisely to what it deems to be a threat to the body. Because the body contains many types of oily molecules and lipids, it may be that when an oil is injected, the immune system responds to it not only specifically, but with heightened intensity because the oil adjuvant resembles so closely the natural oils found in the body. A “cross reaction” then happens, sending the immune system into chaos destroying any oils found anywhere in the body that resemble the adjuvant oil. Demyelinating diseases like multiple sclerosis are an example of this destructive autoimmune process. (6)
To deepen one’s understanding of the shadowy world of vaccine development, award winning investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto’s new book is a “must read.” It documents the secret human medical experimentation conducted on American citizens by doctors and scientists working for the U.S. military. It is a book about “betrayal of the most fundamental rules of medical ethics; and betrayal of the basic duty of military and civilian leaders to protect the people they govern.” Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That’s Killing our Soldiers and Why GI’s are Only the First Victims, is a gripping read into the mad science world of the U.S. military’s biowarfare vaccine development program which, since 1987 has injected tens of thousands of U.S. troops with an experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccine containing squalene. An oil based adjuvant, squalene has been known for decades to cause severe autoimmune diseases in laboratory animals. Writes Matsumoto, “The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny and public accountability by national security concerns.” Reading this book, one gets a permanent chill in the spine as we glimpse the “writing on the wall” of what is to come. (6,7)
(I have to insert a comment here in regards to what Alex Jones and Rima and General S. are saying. I have participated on the internet for over ten years. The same sorts of tactics described have been used against birth activists on all of the web sites and chat rooms I have participated on. My particular message of Family Sovereignty and Health Freedom for Mothers has been particularly attacked. Everything they described in this movie has happened over and over and over again as I have written posts, articles, and made comments about Family Freedom. Now I am to the point where I can spot a Big Pharma Whore a mile away once they show up in a chat room where I am participating. I have to thank them though. I never would have started this blog had I not been so completely shut down on the Mothering Boards where I was daily writing about political freedom. Thanks guys – you paid chemical trollschange agents are the worst people on the web, but we’re on to your tactics!)
“When UCLA Medical School’s Michael Whitehouse and Frances Beck injected squalene combined with other materials into rats and guinea pigs back in the 1970’s, few oils were more effective at causing the animal versions of arthritis and multiple sclerosis”, writes Matsumoto. In 1999, Dr. Johnny Lorentzen, an immunologist at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute proved that on injection, “otherwise benign molecules like squalene can stimulate a self-destructive immune response”, even though they occur naturally in the body. Other research institutes have also shown that the immune system makes antibodies to squalene, but only after it is injected (6) We now know that squalene, added to boost immune response in a formulation known as MF59, is the secret ingredient in certain lots of experimental anthrax vaccine that has caused devastating autoimmune diseases and death in countless Gulf War vets (Canadian, British and Australian troops were also injected with squalene laced vaccine), and continues to be used today. There is a “close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus”, writes Matsumoto. These three illnesses have been proven to be caused by this oil, but there is an additional long list of autoimmune diseases associated with squalene injection into humans. (6) “There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals..observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Sweden’s Karolinska Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals, squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals, squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus”, writes Matsumoto. (6)
Long List of Side Effects Referring to squalene in her extensive article on adjuvants, Dr. Scheibner writes, “This adjuvant contributed to the cascade of reactions called “Gulf War syndrome”, documented in the soldiers involved in the Gulf War. The symptoms they developed included arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Sjorgren’s syndrome, chronic diarrhoea, night sweats and low-grade fevers. (1)
Matsumoto punctuates his book with poignant interviews of military personnel who suffered many of these extreme and devastating syndromes, all of whom tested positive for anti-squalene antibodies which has become THE definitive marker for people who have been injected with this adjuvant and who have gone on to develop catastrophic diseases.
Immunologist, Dr. Pamela Asa was the first person to recognize that the autoimmune diseases she was seeing in military personnel mirrored those in experimental animals injected with oil formulated adjuvants. When she met a patient with similar autoimmune symptoms who had participated in an experimental herpes vaccine trial, who also knew he had been injected with MF59, a squalene adjuvant being used as a ‘placebo’ in that study, everything began to fall into place. Pam Asa contacted Dr. Robert Garry, a leading virologist at Tulane University Medical School, whose specialty is developing antibody tests and asked him to develop a test for the detection of anti-squalene antibodies – a test that ultimately became the most important forensic and diagnostic tool identifying patients whose autoimmune diseases followed injection with squalene laced anthrax vaccine. (6)
Juxtaposed to heart wrenching testimonies of shattered health and ruined lives is the military’s defiant stonewall and denial that a squalene laced anthrax vaccine was injected into thousands of its people without their informed consent – this despite the fact that the FDA and independent researchers have tested and identified varying amounts of squalene in specific lots of the vaccine.
Even more stunning is the fact that by 1997, hundreds of millions of dollars had already been spent testing vaccines formulated with squalene adjuvants by leading research institutes like NIH (National Institutes of Health) who tested its efficacy in HIV vaccines, the National Cancer Institute who for nearly two decades conducted research with squalene-boosted vaccines, and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had been testing it in animals since 1988 and began human clinical trials in1991. Nineteen of NIAID’s 23 trials were for prototype HIV vaccines. Writes Matsumoto, ” Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the globe.” (6)
Immune System Sees Squalene as an Enemy to Attack Researchers at Tulane Medical School and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research “have both proven that the immune system responds specifically to the squalene molecule. Squalene’s pathway through the body has been tracked with a radioactive tracer in animals by none other than Chiron, (well known flu vaccine manufacturer) and maker of MF59, the squalene-based adjuvant, now also a component of FLUAD, an Italian influenza vaccine. (6)
The immune system does in fact “see” squalene and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the body. The key is “route of administration”. As Gary Matsumoto says, “Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow – it is found throughout the nervous system and the brain.” When it is injected into the body, the immune system sees it as an enemy to be attacked and eliminated.(6)
As any immunologist will tell you, the way an antigen encounters the immune system makes all the difference. You can eat squalene – no problem as it is an oil the body can easily digest. But studies in animals and humans show that injecting squalene will “galvanize the immune system into attacking it, which can produce a self-destructive cross reaction against the same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body – and where it is critical to the health of the nervous system.” (6)
This phenomenon is also known as ‘molecular mimicry’, where the immune system forms antibodies against one of its own structures and will continue to attack the ‘self’ molecule in the body that resembles the one in the germ, or as is the case with squalene, an identical substance that is naturally present in the body. Once this self-destructive process begins, it never stops as the body continues to make the molecule the immune system is now trained to attack.
Another example involving autoimmune ‘molecular mimicry’ is when the immune system has been sensitized to attack myelin, the insulating fatty coating around nerve fibres which insures the smooth relay of nerve signals. The body would continue to make myelin in order to replenish and repair the protective sheath around its nerve endings. But says Matsumoto, “In the act of doing so, the body immunizes itself against itself, administering over and over again what amounts to a booster dose of something that the immune system now wants to get rid of. This vital constituent (myelin) is now the enemy, and the immune system is now programmed to obliterate it in an endless loop of self-destruction” – the process involved in MS (multiple sclerosis), and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).(6)
Tying molecular mimicry to the autism epidemic, many children have regressed into autism spectrum disorders after injection with the triple live virus MMR (measles,mumps,rubella) vaccine. Dr.Vijendra Singh’s research at Utah State University suggests that auto-antibodies are attacking myelin in these children. He has shown that many autistic children have auto-antibodies to brain myelin basic protein (MBP) as well as elevated levels of measles virus antibodies. “Immunoblotting analysis showed the presence of an unusual MMR antibody in 60% (75 of 125) of autistic children, but none of the 92 normal children had this antibody. In addition, there was a positive correlation (greater than 90%) between MMR antibody and MBP auto-antibody, suggesting a causal association between MMR and brain autoimmunity in autism. This is one of the most important findings in autism to date, which prompted us to link measles virus in the etiology of the disorder”, writes Dr. Singh. (8,9,10)
Immunologist Dr. Bonnie Dunbar has also done extensive research on the mechanisms of injury inflicted by hepatitis B vaccine and has observed similar autoimmune processes involving molecular mimicry in people who developed devastating neuroimmune syndromes after injection with this vaccine. (11)
Molecular Mimicry as a Bio-Weapon Matsumoto reports that Soviet bioweaponeers used the principal of molecular mimicry in the 1980’s to engineer a ‘designer disease’ that would attack myelin. By splicing a fragment of myelin basic protein into legionella bacterium, they created what amounted to a living “nano-bomb”, which they injected into guinea pigs. What they found was that the immune system quickly cleared the legionella bacterium, but the myelin molecule, smuggled in by this microbial “Trojan horse” initiated a second wave of disease which caused experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, the animal version of MS. The Soviets recognized this creation for what it was – a biological time bomb!! (6)
“Squalene is a kind of trigger for the real biological weapon: the immune system. When the immune system’s full repertoire of cells and antibodies start attacking the tissues they are supposed to protect, the results can be catastrophic,” writes Matsumoto. His assessment is seconded by Dr. Pam Asa – “Oil adjuvants are the most insidious chemical weapon ever devised.” (6)
“Molecular mimicry, seen for its diabolical potential as a weapon by the Soviets as far back as the 1980’s, also applies to squalene. But the real problem with using squalene, of course, is not that it mimics a molecule found in the body; it is the same molecule,” writes Matsumoto. “So what American scientists conceived as a vaccine booster was another “nano-bomb”, instigating chronic, unpredictable and debilitating disease. When the NIH (National Institutes of Health) argued that squalene would be safe because it is native to the body, just the opposite was true. Squalene’s natural presence in the body made it one of the most dangerous molecules ever injected into man!” (6)
The main proponents for the use of squalene in vaccines have been the U.S Department of Defense and the NIH. The anti-squalene antibodies in sick American and British military personnel are evidence that military experimentation has caused an unprecedented health catastrophe in tens of thousands of people onto whom the vaccine was forced and who were denied the right to make an informed decision based on existing scientific knowledge of the dangers of injecting squalene. “By adding squalene to their new anthrax vaccine, they did not make a better vaccine, they made a biological weapon.” (6) .
Why , one would obviously ask, would anyone knowingly inject such a dangerous substance into humans? Certainly in terms of the U.S. military’s decision, they chose to turn a blind eye to the existing science, which for decades had documented the immune destructive properties of squalene. They justified its use because they knew they had a weak and ineffective vaccine which needed a serious boost. In the face of weaponized biowarfare agents like anthrax already developed by Russia and fear that it was also possessed by Iraq, they were desperate to increase the vaccine’s effectiveness as they launched into the first Gulf War. Additionally, explains Matsumoto, “scientists in the United States are now literally invested in squalene. Army scientists who developed the second generation anthrax vaccine have reputations to protect and licensing fees to reap for the army..[and] .worldwide rights to develop and commercialize the new recombinant vaccine for anthrax.” (6)
He goes on to explain, “the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been supporting both animal and human research with squalene since the 1980’s. Squalene has become perhaps the most ubiquitous oil adjuvant on the planet, which is something that should concern everyone. Many of the cutting edge vaccines currently in development by the NIH and its corporate partners contain squalene in one formulation or another. There is squalene in the prototype recombinant vaccines for HIV, malaria, herpes, influenza, cytomegalovirus and human papillomavirus. Some of these prototypes like HIV, malaria and influenza are intended for mass immunization around the globe.” (6)
Squalene Adjuvants Enter the Global Market FLUAD, the squalene boosted flu vaccine has been licensed in Italy since 1997. It contains MF59, the squalene adjuvant made by Chiron. Although all the published papers co-authored by Chiron-employed scientists and Italian researchers have reported MF59 to be safe, Gary Matsumoto suggests a flaw in study designs may “prevent researchers from seeing the vaccine’s real risks.” Testing of FLUAD was limited to elderly people in nursing homes – average age was 71.5 which would tend to obscure autoimmune problems that might arise for a number of reasons. If autoimmune symptoms like joint pain and fatigue did occur in geriatric Italians, doctors might not connect these complaints to anything but old age. (6)
“Autoimmunity is notorious for taking years to diagnose because the early symptoms (e.g. headaches, joint and muscle pain and fatigue) are so vague; primary care physicians often fail to recognize it…a large Phase lV trial did not even bother to analyze the “common-post immunization reactions” in study participants, recording only those adverse events severe enough to require a doctor’s visit within 7 days of immunization.” In another study patients were observed for 180 days, but only serious events like “admission to hospital or death” qualified as a reaction – nothing else was recorded. Symptoms of adverse reactions listed in the FLUAD package insert are almost identical to the Air Force case-definition for Gulf War Syndrome, and include rashes, malaise, fever, myalgia, arthralgia, weakness, sweating and various autoimmune reactions and neurologic disturbances. (6)
“The question is whether scientists working for pharmaceutical companies are intentionally designing studies so as to miss adverse reactions that inconvenience their marketing strategy?” asks Matsumoto. “Chiron’s conclusion about squalene’s safety are at odds with recent data from studies in both animals and humans.” (6)
Just in from the newslists on February 9, 2005 is an item informing of the European “debut” of a new adjuvant approved for use in a new high-potency hepatitis B vaccine. Fendrix, the new enhanced hepB vaccine is being launched by pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline for use in people with poor immune responses (like dialysis patients) and those at high risk for developing hepatitis B. It is formulated with a new adjuvant that can “significantly improve the effectiveness of immunizations.” AS04, the ‘proprietary’ adjuvant based on MPL, originally developed by U.S. company Corixa, “increases the immune potency of the new vaccine, allowing two dose administration rather than three. It has been shown clinically to be more effective than alum, the most widely used adjuvant in vaccines.” (12)
So what exactly is this new high potency adjuvant? We’re told by the press release that MPL (AS04), is a “derivative of the lipid A molecule found in Gram-negative bacteria, is extracted from bacterial cell walls and is one of the most potent regulators of the immune response, used by the body to alert itself to bacterial infections.”(12) Full name of the lipid is monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL)
This news should put everyone on high alert because guess what? Lipids are oils/fatty acids and according to Matsumoto, MPL is identified in declassified documents as one of two squalene emulsions used in the Army’s new “recombinant protective antigen anthrax vaccine (rPA) which the FDA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense fast-tracked into clinical trials in1998. The other squalene adjuvant they used was Chiron’s MF59. (6)
It appears that Fendrix is only the first of a whole new generation of “enhanced potency” vaccines coming down the pipeline using the new high potency lipid adjuvant, MPL. “The adjuvant is also being used in a number of GSK’s developmental vaccines, including one that could be the first effective vaccine for malaria”, says the article. MPL (AS04) adjuvant is also a component of GSK Bio’s genital herpes vaccine, as well as a component in their cervical cancer vaccine and a new tuberculosis vaccine.” (12)
In the unraveling of the squalene story, we find that a squalene emulsion first known as Triple Mix (based on Freund’s adjuvant) was later given the commercial name “Ribi”. Triple Mix (renamed Ribi) was tested by Dutch scientists on rabbits who found it caused “severe effects.the largest number and most severe lesions when compared with the other adjuvants.”(6) Then in June 1999, Ribi ImmunoChem its manufacturer was acquired by Corixa Corporation for $56.3 million, who presumably also own the Ribi formulation. Whether MPL(AS04) is a formula related to Ribi is undoubtedly “proprietary” information, but from Matsumoto’s reseasrch, we know they are all squalene based. And it doesn’t end there. MPL, Corixa’s multi-million dollar baby, is slated for inclusion not only in the “enhanced potency” vaccines already mentioned, but will also be a strategic component of new allergy and autoimmune vaccines in development. (13)
From their inception, mass vaccinations have acted as a biological weapon, undermining health, manipulating and crippling the immune system, and instigating cycles of new and debilitating diseases. Monopoly medicine’s solution? Inject us with more powerful, genetically engineered high potency vaccines. Never mind they are seeding us with “nano-bombs” that will further attack our already compromised immune systems.
The concept of stimulating a hyperactive immune response by using oil-based adjuvants has clearly backfired since we now know that the stronger the antigenic response, the more damaging the adjuvant itself is to the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system. The precedent for mass medical experimentation via an ever increasing recommended vaccine schedule has been set. We can now predict the grim future of mankind: an epidemic of neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases never before imagined.
Edda West is the founder and director of the Vaccine Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) in Canada. To find out more about VRAN, visit the website at http://www.vran.org
Notes & Resources
Adjuvants listed by Scheibner: “Today the most common adjuvants for human use are aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate and calcium phosphate. However, there are a number of other adjuvants based on oil emulsions, products from bacteria (their synthetic derivatives as well as liposomes) or gram-negative bacteria, endotoxins, cholesterol, fatty acids, aliphatic amines, paraffinic and vegetable oils. Recently, monophosphoryl lipid A, ISCOMs with Quil-A, and Syntex adjuvant formulations (SAFs) containing the threonyl derivative or muramyl dipeptide have been under consideration for use in human vaccines*Definition of Antigen (Scheibner): “Micro-organisms, either bacteria or viruses, thought to be causing certain infectious diseases and which the vaccine is supposed to prevent. These are whole-cell proteins or just the broken-cell protein envelopes, and are called antigens”
1.Viera Scheibner, Ph.D, The Adverse Effects of Adjuvants in Vaccines, Nexus Magazine Dec. 2000 vol.8, No.1
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/adjuvants.html
2. Aluminum Toxicity notes from Dr. Boyd Haley Toxic Test Foundation website: http://www.altcorp.com/DentalInformation/aluminumvaccines.htm
3. Boyd E. Haley, Professor of Chemistry: Thimerosal Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopment Outcomes: http://64.41.99.118/vran/vaccines/mercury/mer_haley.htm
4. Brain, Vol. 124, No. 9, 1821-1831, September 2001, 2001 Oxford University Press http://brain.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/124/9/1821
5 Vaccine Adjuvants: current state and future trends, Volume 82: Issue Immunology and Cell Biology http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/abstract.asp ?ref=0818-9641&vid=82&iid=5&aid=5&s=&site=1
6.Gary Matsumoto, Vaccine A-The Covert Government Experiment That’s Killing our Soldiers and Why GI’s are Only the First Victims
7.Gary Matsumoto Press Release and biography: http://www.vaccine-a.com
8 Vijendra K Singh, Ph.D, Abnormal Measles Serology and Autoimmunity in Autistic Children – Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunol, 109 (1): S232, January 2002
9. Vijendra Singh – lecture at ATEDM Conference: http://iquebec.ifrance.com/autismemtl/2002/program_en.html
10. Institute of Medicine Meeting (IOM) on Vaccines and Autism, February 9, 2004
11.. Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D – articles and research proposal – VRAN website: http://64.41.99.118/vran/vaccines/hepatitis/dunbar_research.htm
12..New adjuvant debuts in new hep B vaccine , February 9, 2005, In-Pharma Technologist.com http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/news-ng.asp ?n=57959-new-adjuvant-debuts
13. Corixa weblink to MPL press release on allergy & autoimmune applications: http://www.corixa.com/default.asp?pid=auto_capsule&id=22
Chat at Free Republic – that I just cut and pasted (Because I want to be certain it survives!)
I especially cracked up at the several paragraphs trying to tell me that Alum will kill me. Didn’t you ever eat a pickle?
Watch out for the dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff can be very deadly. They use it as an industrial solvent, you know.
More anti vaccine nut-job balony.
This stuff is a real pantload.
Oh Burother!
I suppose you are also against kids getting vaccinated against measles.
There have been fewer cases of adverse affects from the vaccinations than paragraphs in your posts.
Don’t forget dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). Get that in your lungs and it is OVER:
Rub your finger along side your nose. What you have on your finger is squalene, a natural oil found in the human body.
Re-read what I wrote. I didn’t forget it.
LOL!!!!
I guess you dumba**es missed the paragraph about big pharma trolls dumping and spewing all over natural healing posts.
How much is Baxter paying these days? Ten thousand a week to hang at Free Republic and dump all over anyone and anything that could hurt the vaccine agendas?
The blood money you are getting will never cover the guilt and shame you will feel when you realize what has been done to innocents all over the world these past few weeks.
BWAA HAA HAAA!!!!
Now I am a dumb-ass. I am honored!
I want to go out and get one of those natural healing posts. Pound it into the ground in my back yard.
Go lean on it every time I get sick.
If I am REALLY sick I can go out and spew on it!
Ping…
H1N1 vaccines, that is.
dumping and spewing all over natural healing posts.
Dumping and spewing what? Hopefully it is not toxic waste of any kind. At a minimum I would hope it is not as annoying and potentially dangerous as your post.
How much is Baxter paying these days? Ten thousand a week to hang at Free Republic and dump all over anyone and anything that could hurt the vaccine agendas?
Where can I sign up for that deal? Not only would it be fun and easy – kind of like shooting fish in a barrel – but it would likely save some peoples lives. Especially if they were drinking an anti-vaccine kool-aide.
Make fun of people who have absolutely no concept of the number of lives that have been saved by vaccincations? Mythbusters might be more fun, but it would be more work, both physically and mentally.
The blood money you are getting will never cover the guilt and shame you will feel when you realize what has been done to innocents all over the world these past few weeks.
Still waiting for my first check – kind of like you are still waiting for a brain.
Sorry – couldn’t make it less offensive than that. You are an idiot plain and simple. You and people like you are why millions of people die every year for the simple reason that diseases and related causes of death, which are entirely preventable from vaccines and other modern advancements, occur.
On the bright side – you won’t be taking up a spot in front of me in the H1N1 vaccine line.
Thank God for small favors…
>>The blood money you are getting will never cover the guilt and shame you will feel when you realize what has been done to innocents all over the world these past few weeks.<<
Not nearly as much as the blood on your hands from your tin-hat conspiracy theories that will kill people — MOSTLY CHILDREN — who did not inoculate because of people like you.
And, believe me, the blood will be there and unwashable.
But I ain’t getting a dime.
10 grand A WEEK???
Holy Moley! — $120K a year (and probably tax free since it is Big Pharma and all)!!
I don’t know about you, !1776!, but I have just changed careers. Why give out facts and debunk on the side when I can cash in?
Heck — if we do it right, we can do it part time (I mean, FR only occupies the 63% of my life that is not productive). I could keep my current job and clean up!
God, she’s right — we have been IDIOTS to do this for free!!!
Thanks, Jen! If this works out, a little extra something will be donated to FR in your name.
The swine flu vaxes in the US have no adjuvants; no squalene. They bought some to add “just in case”, but it has not been added. Horowitz is a total nutcase and anything he says is mixed with his fertile imagination. He says AIDS isn’t cause by HIV, etc.
I’m not a pro-vax person by any means, but hey, when you say stuff that just ain’t so, you’re not doing your cause any good. Heck, I’m an herbalist and rarely ever use pharma drugs, maybe once or two a decade, if that. But truth is truth.
And you would be correct. There is none. I hang out on PFI to catch the flu news, and I have read so many hours that I dream about flu stuff.
There. Is. No. Squalene. Or. Other. Adjuvants. In. US. H1N1 aka swine flu. Vaccines.
THere is thimerasol in multi dose vials, not in the single dose vials.
YIKES — MATH ERROR!!
$10K a week is 1/2 MILLION A YEAR!!
Forget my current job! And I can do this from my cabana in Cancun!
When I reel this one in, JimRob will only need one Freepathon every 5 years — in your name, Jen!
Hey — don’t you screw up my $500,000 a year deal!
She’s totally right — and as long as she and her compadres work to show The Truth The Man will NEED shills to come on FR and post — at $10K a week.
Ifay ouyay antway inway etlay emay owknay….
What to buy, what to buy…
This being rich thing is going to be tough…
They say money doesn’t buy happiness, but heck, wouldn’t you rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable?
iway antway inway.
>>This being rich thing is going to be tough…<<
Wouldn’t it be ironic if we were cut down by the flu because we were so rich we forgot to take the virus?
In the meantime, to hold that off, like I said, we should donate to Jim in the name of this thread…
Oway Akay!!
Oh wait, it’s about the seriousness of the charge not the real data. Sorry I forgot that aspect.
My bad.
Is there a pull down chart for the number of lives saved by vaccines anywhere? Polio, smallpox, not to mention those simply pesky diseases that killed countless people here and there.
I have to say I am getting sick of overly induldged people who happen to have absolutely no concept of history or the massive benefits that vaccincations have brought to their lives – whether they like it or not.
Yes I would!
You will find that most of these people are not opposed to vaccinations as much as they are opposed to anything to do with pharmaceutical companies.
They get wrapped up in their “natural medicine” fantasy and in their own minds science, medicine and “big pharma” as they like to call it become the enemy.
Many of these types are also opposed to antibiotics in any form. I can’t even begin to comprehend the number of lives that have been saved by antibiotics yet these people will claim them as ineffective, or harmful.
It is a result of truly warped thinking combined with a total lack of understanding of even the most basic scientific principles.
BIGPHARMABIGPHARMABIGPHARMA – BOGEYBOGEYBOGEY…
Any chance you will start making sense soon?
I was told the same thing by our pediatrician who got his information from the CDC.
Since when has the swine flu vaccine here in the U.S. had squalene in it?
ping
There is much evidence that today’s vaccines have problems that are not being addressed.
Trust me, they’re all over the FreeRepublic too …
Nothing but misrepresentation.
“Since when has the swine flu vaccine here in the U.S. had squalene in it?”
I would patiently ask you to refer to the PDF Document in Post #17 that contains a list of “Possible” adjuvants for the H1N1 Vaccine. In section 57 of said patent, the various types of Adjuvents are outlined…
It is written in orwellian newspeak, so I’ll interpret it for you dumba**es:
Mineral Gels: For politicians, their families and cronys.
Aluminum hydroxide: For Patriotic Senior Citizens who we would prefer sitting immobilized in an alzheimers unti rather than attending Teaparties.
Oil Emulsions such as water in oil, or oil in water for all of the rabble we want dead or so disabled, they won’t be able to function and fight our agendas…
The kicker is in the FINAL sentence:
OF COURSE THE SELECTION OF THE ADJUVANT DEPENDS ON THE INTENDED USE IE TOXICITY MAY DEPEND ON THE DESTINED SUBJECT ORGANISM AND CAN VARY FROM NO TOXICITY TO HIGH TOXICITY.”
Squalene is here, it is being used and I still think you are getting a buttload of money for disrupting the chats at Free Republic…WHORE!!!
“Since when has the swine flu vaccine here in the U.S. had squalene in it?”
I would patiently ask you to refer to the PDF Document in Post #17 that contains a list of “Possible” adjuvants for the H1N1 Vaccine. In section 57 of said patent, the various types of Adjuvents are outlined…
It is written in orwellian newspeak, so I’ll interpret it for you dumba**es:
Mineral Gels: For politicians, their families and cronys.
Aluminum hydroxide: For Patriotic Senior Citizens who we would prefer sitting immobilized in an alzheimers unti rather than attending Teaparties.
Oil Emulsions such as water in oil, or oil in water for all of the rabble we want dead or so disabled, they won’t be able to function and fight our agendas…
The kicker is in the FINAL sentence:
OF COURSE THE SELECTION OF THE ADJUVANT DEPENDS ON THE INTENDED USE IE TOXICITY MAY DEPEND ON THE DESTINED SUBJECT ORGANISM AND CAN VARY FROM NO TOXICITY TO HIGH TOXICITY.”
Squalene is here, it is being used and I still think you are getting a buttload of money for disrupting the chats at Free Republic…WHORE!!!
